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Apr. 14th, 2009 01:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI watched the first season of Slings and Arrows again - I'm studying Hamlet and it has some useful meta stuff about that play - and once again I want to write for theatre.
I know this is slightly mad, and I also know it will wear off again, since I've been to the theatre twice in my adult life, both times for Shakespeare plays, and I can't rightly call myself a theatre fan let alone a theatre writer. TV I've watched enough to soak the rules, theatre I'm a total newbie.
But there's something about the whole mad collection where everyone gets together and sits in a room and believes... it's like essence of human, and I want to play with it more.
I want to write scripts and get actors to make them and why can't I just aim for the writing stories thing? Then only me has to like them and the internet can manage the rest. But no, I have to be all into this idea of truth that only script-in-performance can make.
I should sleep. Tomorrow I have a list of things need done. Many of them not about Hamlet at all, which I am beginning to realise means they're waaaaaay less likely to get done. But if I don't get this laptop battery funding sorted out I'll be back at college with no laptop battery, and if I don't get my main computer sorted out I'll have spent much money without getting a worky thing from it, and if I leave it too long it's entirely possible I'll be without internet access, which should worry me more than the possibility I'll have to think about something other than suicidal princes for a day.
I love it when I'm sure I'm in the right area of study; I hear having a life outside the texts can be quite a lot fun too.
I know this is slightly mad, and I also know it will wear off again, since I've been to the theatre twice in my adult life, both times for Shakespeare plays, and I can't rightly call myself a theatre fan let alone a theatre writer. TV I've watched enough to soak the rules, theatre I'm a total newbie.
But there's something about the whole mad collection where everyone gets together and sits in a room and believes... it's like essence of human, and I want to play with it more.
I want to write scripts and get actors to make them and why can't I just aim for the writing stories thing? Then only me has to like them and the internet can manage the rest. But no, I have to be all into this idea of truth that only script-in-performance can make.
I should sleep. Tomorrow I have a list of things need done. Many of them not about Hamlet at all, which I am beginning to realise means they're waaaaaay less likely to get done. But if I don't get this laptop battery funding sorted out I'll be back at college with no laptop battery, and if I don't get my main computer sorted out I'll have spent much money without getting a worky thing from it, and if I leave it too long it's entirely possible I'll be without internet access, which should worry me more than the possibility I'll have to think about something other than suicidal princes for a day.
I love it when I'm sure I'm in the right area of study; I hear having a life outside the texts can be quite a lot fun too.